[R] R crash with internet2.dll

[Kenneth Cabrera]

Dear Dominik:

You can read in the CHANGES file the way to use internet2, that is 
different from
version rw1040.
rw1040
======
internet2.dll (see changes for rw1030) must be selected by the
--internet2 flag.


Grathwohl,Dominik,LAUSANNE,NRC/NT wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm using:
>
>platform i386-pc-mingw32
>arch     i386           
>os       mingw32        
>system   i386, mingw32  
>status                  
>major    1              
>minor    5.1            
>year     2002           
>month    06             
>day      17             
>language R              
>
>and I would like to apply: 
>  
>
>>update.packages()
>>    
>>
>trying URL `http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
>unable to connect to 'vevprx21.nestec.ch'.
>Error in download.file(url = paste(contriburl, "PACKAGES", sep = "/"),  : 
>        cannot open URL
>`http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/PACKAGES'
>
>This error is already described in the R-help archive.
>One of several threads:
>http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/help/01c/0950.html
>Having a well working Internet Explorer 5 on my NT and it sounds as the
>perfect solution 
>for my problem to rename internet2.dll to internet.dll, to avoid the entire
>proxy configuration. 
>Doing so, R crashes!
>What is wrong with internet2.dll?
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Dominik 
>
>
>Dominik Grathwohl 
>Biostatistician 
>Nestlé Research Center 
>PO Box 44, CH-1000 Lausanne 26 
>Phone: + 41 21 785 8034 
>Fax: + 41 21 785 8556 
>e-mail: dominik.grathwohl at rdls.nestle.com 
>
>
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Kenneth Roy Cabrera Torres
Unviersidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín
Instituto de Ciencias Naturales y Ecología
Escuela de Geociencias
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